Ireland may withold EU-Mercosur deal support over Amazon fires: PM
Ireland may vote to block a trade deal between the EU and South American nations if Brazil fails to curb record fires ravaging the Amazon, Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said Friday.
"I am very concerned that this year has seen record levels of destruction of Amazonian forests by fire," he said in a statement.
"There is no way that Ireland will vote for the EU-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement if Brazil does not honour its environmental commitments."
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